The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-10

sounded something IKE tnlS. LanG
shore! Five hundred! Four an haiti
Five hundred Lake Shore! You will,
will youl WEo-o-o-pF"
One Iunatic in this throng snatched
new silk hat from the curly head OF
shouter and put his own soic felt in It's
Mace. The shouter contemporary
hurled the soft hat TO the hoor.' In re
taliation his hat was tossed across the
room. One of the dapper grays caught
it and hung it up. Silk hats and but
tonhole bouquets of sred and purple
flowers are popular With the brokers,
but the frugal members wear soft mats
or hang their tile sson reserved nails anu
go oareheaded. When man naSn q
hat to be knocked Of, his dignified col
Leagues get even with him by sprinkllng
q handful of bits of white paper down |
| the back of his neck.
At IL 80 O'Clock the hurryins Scurry-
ing Cons inches had kicked up sues
| dust on floor that one OF the dappef
grA sprinkled it, as we'll as the boots OF
! H,nherS
TIA re was another disturbance about
no,p in which crowd yelled 'hacks-
| maj! andsometh!netha sounded llke
"P nlcr! - Members held note-booK5
high ia the air and waved them. Occ&-
sionaly shouter Wcuid make an entry
in his BOOK 4 Young man, with wavy
0ionde ha,r left the crowd and darted'
acrns> the floor in eager haste. He was
chewing bits of paper and splitting them
lout. H VS. too excited TO notice 1t,
INT IN. psIer Ianded not On the floor
but his noIe book.
W. n the turmoil was st lis highest
pretty yourg lady with wonder eyes en-
tered he gallery with her mother. ehe
looheo like an angel gazing down INTO
Durgat nv. She SOON Withdrew. A
momeu later there cam out OF the
roar of its disc Ird the sol II a clear
tenor voice SIN ing.
Nearer my God to Thee
The singer evidently meant what he
sang. He was on his way out OF the
Exchange.
Atl2 20 O'Clock the crowd on the floor
J was much depleted. Members were 60
} ing out into the restaurants ar d saloons
on New Street, on the east side of the
J Exchange, to get luncheon. Some went
into the tony restaurants and the others
into the Scent opposite. Some, VINO
had lost money, took drink to tighten
J their grief, and others, who had won,
took drink to celebrate It. The
brokers jostled against shoestring and
playing-c ,rd peddlers, who iinger about
! the New Street side OF the Exchange.
J Crowds of curbstone brokers were in
street. At the Wall Street entrance of
} the Exchange is an old Italian candy
. peddler. with thin face, and hand
kerchief about hos ears to shut out the
} sound of the mind narrowing Yells tna'
emanate from the Exchange.
2 At2 O'Clock the members were BACK
3 and at 1T again, as numerous and noisy
3 as during the forenoon. There was a
brief riot about the Wabash standard,
t from which came up a cry that sounded
I Ike the profane expression: Hell or
! the wabash, but which was merely
:, several members shouting: "Seh Wao
a ashl"
3 at this juncture risky broker stuc!
Il an envelope down the back of the mech
8 of a man old enough TO spank him, ane
It the old man withdrew the envelope ant
IS rammed it down the bosom of dis perse
a cutor.
< At $50 o'clock crowd besieged tn
l. centre pole Labelled Erie" They wer
Ie screaming with great unanimity whel
the hands of the big clock swept aroun
g to 8. suddenly from somewhere cam
,g a sound as if one of the bulls had go
1e into tinshop. 1t was the gong. whic
8, dapper gray youth OF the name
e. Sullivan held up while his colleagu
k Cummerford hammered it. The gon
ht had scarcely ceased when black wills
on cred Chairman Mitchell hit his pulp
be twice with a miniature maui. An cleo
,e. trio gong somewhere in the bulldIn
ed took up the refrain and sale: Then
We my sentime ntS !"
IT, There was final whoop and COZ
re Guiding knocking off of hats and Il
Ter crowd melted away, The business
the Stock Exchange of New York Gil
ny was over for the day. When the repo
on ter turned to leave the gallery sever
he scrub women had taken the floor. Th
cir behaved better than the brokers.-Ns
lth York Eventng SUI.